Keynote '06 questions

Is there a way to add a timeline chart to a slide? Also, is there a way to loop build in/build out effects on a slide?

This version doesn't have the recording function --- http://grab.by/3QBb
Thus I cannot do that work around ... anyone got any assistance on offer ?
Should I just give up and save it as a presentation not try to export to Quicktime (make into a movie)

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Apologies, I'm using Keynote for the first time, can anyone advise...
If I prepare a keynote doc, save it as Powerpoint for my client and pass it along, will the fonts be ok that I have used, I mean will they show up ok if the presentation is shown on any other computer (like a PDF?)
hope to hear from you
brgds
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Simple question - does iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) have the font "Times New Roman"?
TNR is automatically part of OS X 10.6 and is available for all apps.

How to keynote presentation question

I will build a keynote presentation for a presentation at univeristy. My MBP will be connected to a external screen for the public. Now I am wondering if there is a way so that I can have also my personal notes to look at on my MBP, but they will not show on the public screen?
Many thanks!

To set up presenter display to show the notes window:
Keynote > Preferences > Presenter Display > select: use alternate display

2 Keynote chart questions

I'm trying to build a series of 14 different data charts in Keynote. I'm having problems creating two...
Chart 1 (Line-format): This is for "Average Time" spent on a helpdesk call. For the Y-axis, I can't figure out a way to input data in a Minute:Second format (the X-axis is the months of the year).
For example:
Jan - 5:32
Feb - 6:38
Mar - 2:43, etc.
Chart 2 (Column-format): Ideally, I'd like to compare two different data types on a single chart. This for "Server Availability"... the X-axis are the months, with the left-side Y-axis being % of availability, and the right-side Y-axis featuring number of hours unavailable.
For example:
Jan: 99.77% availability/1.68 hours unavailable
Feb: 99.62% availability/2.77 hours unavailable
Mar: 99.70% availability/2.19 hours unavailable, etc.
Thoughts?, Thanks!
Dual 2 Ghz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Welcome to the discussions, Unisphere.
Keynote's charting abilities are relatively rudimentary, and I don't believe it can handle either of the two chart types you want. Your best bet is to do up the charts in another application and paste them in. A post on another thread mentioned the freeware application Plot, which will definitely do two Y-axes plots, and may be able to handle time-based plots as well -- this might be a simple solution.

Iweb and keynote tricky question!

Is there a way to make a presentation in keynote with hyperlinks and transitions and publish that in iweb?i would be very thankful if somebody can describe the procedure...if there is one of course

There's a few things to remember, but I can only think of one right now.
It would be good if QuickTime offered a "Loading" screen by default or allowed you to create one without tools like LiveStage Pro, because interactive presentations with links back and forth have to load completely and, until they do, the first slide will play over and over.
The one thing to remember is that you ALWAYS want to LINK using NON-transitional slides if you're going to a slide that isn't the next one. ie, going from slide 2 - 3, fine, no problem, link however you want with whatever transition you want. Going from slide 2-5, as long as you make sure slide 5 doesn't START with a transition (from slide 4), you're good.

Keynote/Powerpoint question

How can I save a powerpoint presentation on my mac to be viewed on whiteboard?

Simplest way would be to run the PowerPoint file directly on the computer at the school if it is a Windows machine and the computer has PowerPoint or PPt Viewer installed.
If it is a Mac computer, use the original Keynote file if Keynote is installed.
Use a PDF file exported from Keynote as a second method of playback.
Trying to import Powerpoint into a computer with an unkown interactive host programme will end in disaster as not all host programmes can import Powerpoint. Those that can import PowerPoint are very specific about the version of PowerPoint used.

Newbie to keynote; some questions and some observations about this group

Hello, my attn was called to this group. I have seen some impressive presentations in keynote so maybe it is time to switch.
From what?
I do a lot of presentations. I use acrobat. Prepare my page in whatever app is best for the job; print to pdf; include fonts. By using the app of my choice I get just what I want in my slide.
I can readily arrange slides in sorter in acrobat. Allows minimal animation, by, say, preparing the full slide, make copies, and delete progressively. sort to show from the least to the fullest; works for me.
pdf allows touch up text and adding text, which I often think of at the last minute. Drawing an oval or line to point to something. For heavier editing open a slide in illustrator and save as pdf.
So, as I say it works for me. Not glitzy. Certainly pretty easy to produce decent slides.
Most everyone has acrobat on his/her machine, so if I take my presentation on a stick, it can work, nicely, cross platform. Very few occasions when that didnt work.
So I would like to hear folks' experiences. Can you take your presentation on a stick and show it on someone else's computer?
What about posting presentations. I generally put my pdf on my web page, giving the audience the url; seeems to work fine. Again I ask for experience.
Seems like quite a learning curve for keynote. And I browsed about 4 pages of discussion on this board before posting. I saw mostly complaints and problems, and not all that many solutions. And very few raves.
So, I would welcome some testimonials.
PS I dont want to do anything so glitzy that folks will come up to me after the talk and say nice animations; better they talk to me about the substance of my talk.
thanks in advance
-trog

Welcome to the forums, troglodyte.
If you want a testimonial, I think that Keynote is hands-down the easiest to use presentation tool, and produces by far the best-looking results. It is far ahead of PowerPoint.
Keynote produced beautiful results, even when converted to PDF, as it has very nice graphics features (e.g., drop shadows, masking, transparency). If you are most comfortable with PDF, and don't need animations or transitions, then Keynote still has a lot to offer. That said, much of the "wow-factor" of Keynote comes from its lovely and sophisticated transitions and animations.
(These features needn't be just eye-candy, either, as they can serve to emphasize points and help unify certain material. For example, I use transitions that are more obvious, such as the "Doorway", to mark major changes of topic in my presentations, and more subtle ones, like "Dissolve", to change between related slides. This "grammar" of transitions helps to make the presentation more comprehensible.)
Keynote is not cross-platform, so you can't put a native Keynote presentation on a memory stick and be assured that it will work on someone else's computer. However, PDFs make from Keynote should function just fine. Alternatively, you can use various of the other exporting options in Kenote, including Quicktime, Flash, and PowerPoint, to provide more cross-platform compatibility than Keynote does (each of these conversions has its own limitations however). And several of these formats are also appropriate for web deployment.
I find Keynote extremely easy to use. Do realize that these forums are primarily intended for troubleshooting, so you won't find a lot of generic compliments to the application.

Three Keynote '08 questions

1. Why can't the flame effect be played on my Macbook?
2. How can the background music be temporarily stopped while a video file is playing?
3. Is there any way to play a DRMed video file in Keynote?
Thanks
-Keeperofall

1. The video card is not sufficiently powerful.
2. It can't -- there is no way to get music to play through a presentation but to be paused for a section of it. One workaround is to create separate presentation for the part prior to the video, the video itself, and the part after the video, and hyperlink these three presentations together as one (putting the music only in the first and last sections).
3. I don't believe there is, even if you own the video.

Keynote Audio Question

Hey guys - my first post on here...
I'm making a keynote pres. and was wondering if it is possible to have multiple songs play throughout... Right now, I can't seem to find any way to have more than one song play or loop throughout the presentation...
Any Ideas?
Thanks

There is a simple workaround. I have done this at numerous places within the slide show with from 6-25 slides. You simply compose the slides and then paste each one with all of its objects on top of the first slide which has the sound file that you want played for all of the slides. Timing will have to be adjusted to suit. I found the easiest way to do this is to create a new Keynote file which I call a build file it contains all of the individual slides and a master slide. After I have set all the objects to build properly on the individual slides I then paste them into the master slide which has the initial transition and the sound file as well as a top level text file which identifies the sound file being played. I paste each additional slide, on the master slide, as a new set of object layers play and adjust timing as required. When I am satisfied I take the finished master slide and paste it into the master Keynote presentation. My most complex one to date has over 200 objects in the build order and takes about 3 minutes to play.

How to obtain Information in an open Keynote presentation

What I mean is that in other iLife applications, such as Pages, one can call on Information on the document by opening the Inspector/Document/Information.
I find this useful when I need to locate them in the Finder.
Where can I find the same service in Keynote?

Question :
How does this provide me with the ability to find out where the presentation is saved in Finder?
text is typed into one or more of the four boxes in the Keynote Inspector > Spotlight
Spotlight uses these fields to search for this text
If I had a project called Edinburgh Castle - I would type that into Spotlight and it would find it faster than other methods.
Using Pages as my example, the last item at the bottom provides a way to find the document in Finder.
No this does not help find anything using Spotlight. This is part of the document statistics, it shows whether the document has been printed and the date and time of last printing, Clicking the Show File Info button will display the file info window.
Other related Questions:
Do you add information to Keynote/Inspector/Document/Spotlight frequently when you create any document?
I have never used the Spotlight information fields. I place Keynote files in a folder named after the project title so I look directly at that folder in the Finder.

Keynote timing off

Two Keynote issues/questions:
Can the presenter note field be enlarged?
How can I ensure that all the timing cues (delays, dissolves, transitions, etc.) run the SAME each time. There seems to be LOTS of variation.

I subscribe to a list serve that had this very topic today...only it had to do with PPT. Knowing some on THIS site have complained about Keynote's timings, and some have even suggested PPT has no problem, I submit this:
"Michael wrote:
I rarely have success timing PowerPoint presentations to music. When
you set a slide to advance after, for example, 15 seconds, it
advances 15 seconds _after loading_. The problem is that the amount
of time it takes to load the slide will be slightly different from
computer to computer. This slight difference, compounded over several
slides, adds up to throw your timings off.
Jeff adds:
Michael's right, it's very rare to get a powerpoint show to time the same on
two different computers; too many hardware variables can affect it. It's
better if you make a presentation file in power point than a slideshow, but
it can still vary. The best way to go is, as suggested a few times already,
make a video file, VHS, or DVD out of it from your computer."
So, it would appear neither product really gets it right yet. I just wonder if in the future Apple can add some kind of internal clock to Keynote and have it read the time code in movies, etc, managing everything and keeping it in time. That might fix the QT delay problems, but I have no idea why the same program on the same machine will give different results...that one has me stumped.

Iwork 09 removed from the iwork 09 folder inthe applications folder

I installed iwork 09 from dvd and it placed a folder labled iwork 09 in the applications folder containing all 3 apps pages numbers keynote .
Question theese 3 apps allway take the longest to open untill they are cached .
I decided to remove them from the iwork 09 folder and just leave the appps in the applications folder .
amazingingly they open exteamly fast now even from a shut down machine faster than itunes iphoto even mail
is there any harm not having them in a separate folder in the aplications folder ?

But I did not move them from the applications folder just removed the folder they were in , in the aplications folder I have downloaded all three iwork apps from the app store on another compouter and they are separately stored in the applications folder so why cant this work ?
Because the Mac App Store installs software in a different way. The Mac App Store will update an app anywhere on your hard drive. The mechanism it uses for this is built into OS X. However, iWork purchased on a DVD or downloaded is installed via an "Installer" application. This installer application is coded to only look for iWork in the /Applications folder. It will not look elsewhere.
I decided to remove them from the iwork 09 folder and just leave the appps in the applications folder amazingingly they open exteamly fast now even from a shut down machine faster than itunes iphoto even mail
This is weird. And I'd bet it has nothing to do with moving them to a different folder. I suspect it is because of a problem with the folder they're stored in or a cache file. I would also suspect that if you totally uninstalled iWork, deleted supporting cache files and reinstalled it that the apps would install just as fast.

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I recently purchased iWork. I have a lot of old powerpoints with text in the comments box (the white box below the slide in powerpoint when viewing in Normal mode). The text does not appear when I open the powerpoints in keynote. three questions:
1. how can I view the text
2. can I make a similar text box in iWork or do I have to create a new textbox in each slide (most of the powerpoints I view are premade)
3. can I convert my powerpoints so they open faster in keynote, right now they are somewhat slow.
This is my first post, thanks for any help and sorry if this was posted about before I couldn't find anything when I searched.

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Question: We want to run the presentation on the ipad 2 and screen-share to the other ipads instead of using a projector. Can we do this?

is there a way to run a presentation per above--controlling all the screens in the room, but using different software or system configurations? E.g., a minorly interactive PDF.
At minimum I'd like to drive the presentation: advance, jump (simple HTML nav?), enlarge, and reposition (possibly allowing viewers to do the same).
Is this too much t ask?

Removing iWork 09 apps from iWork 09 folder

I installed iwork 09 from dvd and it placed a folder labled iwork 09 in the applications folder containing all 3 apps pages numbers keynote .
Question theese 3 apps allway take the longest to open untill they are cached .
I decided to remove them from the iwork 09 folder and just leave the appps in the applications folder .
amazingingly they open exteamly fast now even from a shut down machine faster than itunes iphoto even mail
is there any harm not having them in a separate folder in the aplications folder ?

But I did not move them from the applications folder just removed the folder they were in , in the aplications folder I have downloaded all three iwork apps from the app store on another compouter and they are separately stored in the applications folder so why cant this work ?
Because the Mac App Store installs software in a different way. The Mac App Store will update an app anywhere on your hard drive. The mechanism it uses for this is built into OS X. However, iWork purchased on a DVD or downloaded is installed via an "Installer" application. This installer application is coded to only look for iWork in the /Applications folder. It will not look elsewhere.
I decided to remove them from the iwork 09 folder and just leave the appps in the applications folder amazingingly they open exteamly fast now even from a shut down machine faster than itunes iphoto even mail
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